Backstage Blog

• Announcements
• Hacks

If you are looking for some inspiration for your next weekend hack project, here is a list of ideas that could be built using the SoundCloud platform. Feel free to add your own ideas in the comments!

• Announcements
• SDKs
• Android

Alongside with the SoundCloud Android app we’ve created a new Java Wrapper for the SoundCloud API and today we can finally release it to the public!

It is simple to use, supports OAuth2 and requires a minimum of external dependencies so it should be easily embeddable in both desktop and mobile applications.

• Announcements

On Thursday May 5th 2011 we had an API outage from ~9:00 UTC to ~14:00 UTC. This was caused by a deploy that included a migration with unexpected behavior and a bug in the application code. The migration ran on tables related to API applications and made these tables unavailable for the time of the migration. When the deploy was finished, a bug causing huge memory consumption brought our app servers down. We recovered by rolling back the faulty code and migrating the database down.

After the API…

• Announcements

We are happy to introduce you to our new developer portal developers.soundcloud.com. Here we are bundling up all the SoundCloud platform and developer related products and resources. It will give you the best starting point to dig into our API and all things related! Let us know what you think about it!